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Air Sahara To Launch "hub Hyderabad"

Karan69 From India, joined Oct 2004, 2642 posts, RR: 15
Posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 646 times:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/913232.cms

It basically speaks sbout how S2 is going to utilise Hyderabad on the lines of FRA and will increase the weekly flights to 126 by 2005 and 217 by 2006.
It will also serve S2 international destinitions like London,Singapore and the current ones when Govt. approval is recieved.
It plans to invest 20mn dollars......

The reason for the selection of Hyd. is its location, do yoll think it is a wise decision on S2 part especially when they just have a dozen aircrafts

Nalini Forever

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TKMCE From India, joined May 2002, 841 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 615 times:

Hyderabad is underserved as far as domestic routes are concerned. With only Indian Airlines (and of late Air Deccan) having an aircraft overnighting in Hyderabad, this means that to many cities , most of the flights do not make ideal connections for business travellers.

Hence I feel if Sahara is able to have double daily (morning/evening) flights to and from DEL/BOM/MAA/BLR/CCU and PNQ, then they do have a good chance to grab the market. Their biggest threat is going to come from Indian Airlines who already have four A320s and an Aliiance 737s based in Hyderabad and have the flexibility to change schedules to drive out competition. They already have a regular morning and evening departure to MAA /BOM and DEL and I wouldnt be surprised if they rearrange their Alliance Air Schedule ex Hyderabad to take out the Calcutta market as well.

Anyway interesting times ahead.

Indianguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 603 times:

Excellent choice!! HYD is the city with the most unexploited potential. 9W and IC dominate most of the other potential hubs like BOM, DEL, MAA and BLR and S2 is going to find it very difficult to penetrate into these markets any more than it has.

The decision to bring in the smaller jets like the CRJ200 was also excellent as it enabled S2 to introduce routes that are just not feasible using the larger 737/A320 sized aircraft.

Stealthpilot From India, joined May 2004, 508 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 535 times:

If they had to pick a hub i guess HYD was a good choice because it has alot of potential.

That being said im not sure that the 'hub and spoke' idea is the smartest way to go!!!! Concentrating most flights into one city and feeding it out...... not the best idea.

eP007

AirbusfanYYZ From Canada, joined Oct 2002, 1337 posts, RR: 37
Reply 4, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 441 times:

Great choice of picking HYD!
Hopefully this will spur some movement on Shamshabad International.
Interestingly enough CNN had a link to the story on it's main page. http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/11/08/bt.india.sahara.air.reut/index.html

Cheers,
Kaz

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Kkfla737 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1033 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 434 times:

Hyderbad is the best connecting point within India- it's a very wise decision.

ACAfan From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 709 posts, RR: 8
Reply 6, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 392 times:

IT'S ABOUT TIME !!!

Finally a city of six million people is getting the respect it deserves (at least, in terms of air service)!

Smile/happy/getting dizzy

By the way, what is the status on the new Shamshabad airport?

Freddie Laker ... May be at peace with his maker ... But he is a persona non grata ... with IATA

ACAfan From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 709 posts, RR: 8
Reply 7, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 387 times:

Further questions:

Will Air Sahara drop service that does not connect to or from the hub? (example: Ahmedabad-Delhi) Will all resources be placed into HYD?

Freddie Laker ... May be at peace with his maker ... But he is a persona non grata ... with IATA

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